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[syn: serpentine, snaky, snakelike]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Snaky \Snak"y\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake;
serpentine; winding.
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The red light playing upon its gilt and carving gave
it an appearance of snaky life. --L. Wallace.
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2. Sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful.
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So to the coast of Jordan he directs
His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles. --Milton.
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3. Covered with serpents; having serpents; as, a snaky rod or
wand. --Dryden.
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That snaky-headed, Gorgon shield. --Milton.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
snaky
adj 1: resembling a serpent in form; "a serpentine wall"; "snaky
ridges in the sand" [syn: serpentine, snaky,
snakelike]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "snaky":
Machiavellian, Machiavellic, aberrant, aberrative, acute,
ambagious, amphibian, anfractuous, anguiform, anguine, arch,
artful, astute, batrachian, cagey, canny, circuitous,
circumlocutory, clever, colubriform, convolutional, crafty,
crawling, creeping, crocodilian, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep,
deep-laid, departing, designing, desultory, deviant, deviating,
deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, diplomatic, discursive,
eellike, errant, erratic, excursive, feline, flexuose, flexuous,
foxy, froggy, guileful, indirect, ingenious, insidious, inventive,
involute, involuted, involutional, knowing, labyrinthine,
lizardlike, lumbriciform, mazy, meandering, meandrous, ophidian,
out-of-the-way, pawky, planetary, politic, rambling, ready, repent,
reptant, reptile, reptilelike, reptilian, reptiliform, reptiloid,
resourceful, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, roving, ruffled,
saurian, scheming, serpentiform, serpentile, serpentine,
serpentlike, serpentoid, sharp, shifting, shifty, shrewd, sinuate,
sinuose, sinuous, slick, slippery, slithering, sly, smooth,
snake-shaped, snakelike, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic,
stray, subtile, subtle, supple, swerving, tactical, toadish,
torsional, tortile, tortuous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, turning,
twisting, twisty, undirected, vagrant, veering, vermiform,
viperiform, viperish, viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery,
vulpine, wandering, wary, whorled, wily, winding, wormlike,
wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag